Unfortunately, it was a power play by a select few on the city commission to advance their personal agendas and to punish property owners in the student areas between High Street and CMU.

As you take a ride down Main and Washington Street you will see that older obsolete and unsafe buildings were removed and new student rental units were constructed. These homes adhere to current building codes making them safer for students, substantially increase the tax base for the entire city and unequivocally make the neighborhood look better.

Now an out-of-town consultant knows more about our city than we do and decided we should change decades of zoning in this area back to single family because that’s where families and graduate students want to live.

This, folks, is just a fantasy concocted by a select few and their friends, and they are so dead set on this they can’t hear any of the rational arguments by the professionals who spoke at the last public hearing.

Imagine your homes being rezoned to something different and your voices being lost into the abyss! Unbelievable! Oh, they will try to sugarcoat it at the next city commission meeting on January 22nd but the decision was already made months ago.